Water-wheel.



PATENTED EEB. 27, 190e. J. SGEULTE, JR. WATER WHEEL.

ABPLIUATION FILED JULY 104, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH SOHULTE, JR.,

OF WALFORD, IOWA.

WATER-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed July l0, 1905. Serial No. 269,089.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SCHULTE, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Walford, in the county of Benton and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to water-wheels for high-pressure water-power, and embodies certain novel features of construction whereby the entire wheel is given a planetary motion about an axis transverse to its own, and the momentum of the wheel and connected mechanism, moving in an orbit, is transmitted to the axis around which it moves;

The full nature of the invention will clearly appear from the description and claims following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of mechanism embodying my invention, a part of the main frame being broken away. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken in the line2 2. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top view of the sluice-gate. Fig. 4 is a section of the same in the line 4 4.

In the drawings, 1 designates a rectangular frame provided with bearings3 and3a to take the main shaft 5, on which is secured a pulley 6 or other suitable power-transmitting device. This shaft is also journaled in a frame 7, mounted to revolve inside the main frame. The frame 7 has a lower bearing 8, surrounding the water-pipe 9, which is secured to the lower portion of the main frame, as by bearings 10 and a set-screw 11. To an arm 12 of the inner frame is secured a cylindrical sluicegate 13, having a tangential outlet 14 with an opening 15 in the top, through which dip the floats of the-water-wheel 16. Water is delivered at the outlet through curved waterways 17 in a cylindrical head 18, secured to the main waterpipe and around which the sluice-gate turns. The sluice should have a stuffing-box 19 where the water-pipe enters it, as shown.

The water-wheel is mounted on an inclined axle 20 between arms 21, forming a part of the frame 7. At one side of it is a bevel-gear 22, engaging a bevel-pinion 23, mounted between arms 24 and 25 of the same frame. Secured to or forming an integral part of the pinion is a spur-pinion 26, engaging a similar pinion 27, secured to the shaft 5. The bevelpinion 28 engages a corresponding pinion 29, mounted to turn on a stud 39, secured to an arm 31 of the inner frame. The latter pinion meshes with another bevel-pinion 32, made fast to the main frame, as by a set-screw 33, fastening it to an extension of the bearing 3a, as shown.

Opposite the water-wheel and its correlated mechanism on an arm 34 is mounted a counterweight 35, by which the whole revolving apparatus is accurately balanced.

The operation of the device will be readily understood. Water being admitted under high pressure to the sluice-gate, the wheel revolves in the direction indicated by the arrow. Through the medium of the gearing this motion is communicated to the shaft 5 in the same direction, but at a greatly-increased speed. At the same time the iixed bevelpinion serves to drive the wheel-frame and alits connections in orbital paths around the axis of the main shaft, but at a slower rate of speed than said main shaft, about one-half in the case of the model from which the drawings were made. It is to be noted that this orbital movement is a factor in the power developed, inasmuch as water-pressure' is applied to the wheel-blades at some radial distance from the axial line of the main shaft, and the whole apparatus revolving exerts a turning leverage on the main shaft equal to the length of this radius. It is of course not pretended that this is an absolute gain of power; but it is of advantage in that the momentum of the revolving frame-tends, like a ily-wheel, to give steady motion under varying loads.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and -desire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

1. The combination of a water-wheel, a sluice-gate therefor, a carrying-frame for said wheel and sluice, and gearingadapted to carry the wheel and its connections in an orbit around the axis of Asaid frame, and transverse to the axis of said wheel.

2. The combination of a water-wheel, a sluice-gate to receive the dip of the wheelblades, a head central to said sluice-gate, and having radial waterways therein, a central water pipe connecting with said head, a frame on which the wheel and sluice are mounted, bearings to carry said frame and its connections revolubly about an axis central to said water-head, and gearing connecting with the water-wheel whereby said wheel is made to move in an orbit about an axis transverse to its own.

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3. In combination with water-wheel mechtransversely diagonal to the axis of the frame s revolution, a sluiee-gate mounted on said inr 5 ner frame, and gearing connecting the iixed pinion With the Water-Wheel, whereby it is made to revolve in an orbit transverse to its own axis,

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 2o in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH SCHULTE, J R.

Witnesses:

J. M. ST. JOHN, F. J. KULICEK. 

